Enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it.
1Anastasia had placed the swath of tape over the lock chamber, same as always.
2We're in the final lock chamber now, awaiting the OK from Earth before we go through.
3At once, Poole could hear the throbbing of the pumps as precious air was sucked out of the lock chamber.
4An outside man met me near the admission lock chambers of the main building.
5But I wanted not to pry into locked chambers.
6In a double- locked chamber on the third level of the apartment they found what Aversin expected.
7Actually, he turns a little too quickly into a hysteric begging to escape from his locked chamber.
8Blue-Beard's locked chamber, and female curiosity!
9For instance, you may have to solve a puzzle about a key in order to enter a locked chamber.
10The shock of that awful discovery in the locked chamber, he attested, had put Mrs. Bogardus temporarily beside herself.
11He knew, for he had them safe in the locked chamber of his breast, to yield him subservient responses.
12But I could not understand how Fu-Manchu had gained access to locked chambers on the third story of a building.
13Here then you have the key to the locked chambers of Audley Egerton's character, the fortified castle of his mind.
14He kept her image in a distant and doubly- locked chamber of his heart, and seldom permitted his thoughts to go thither.
15He had found no closets in the wall, no locked chambers; he had met with no mysterious silences, mysterious looks, mysterious words.
16Yet I daren't tell you, for it would be rattling at the door of the locked chamber....
Translations for lock chamber